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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. The selection of words in a literary work.






2. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






3. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






4. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






5. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






6. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






7. Broken down acts.






8. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






9. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






10. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






11. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






12. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






13. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






14. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






15. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






16. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






17. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






18. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






19. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






20. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






21. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






22. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






23. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






24. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






25. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






26. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






27. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






28. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






29. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






30. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






31. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






32. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






33. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






34. The person who 'tells' the story.






35. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






36. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






37. The time and place of a story or play.






38. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






39. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






40. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






41. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






42. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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43. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






44. The dictionary meaning of a word.






45. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






46. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






47. A short saying with a moral.






48. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






49. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






50. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.